Twenty-three vignettes present Nong, a ten-year-old girl living in present-day Thailand, and the characters of her village as they slowly make the transition from rural poverty to western modernization.
Related: Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Thailand
- ISBN: 9780208024572
- Author: Glass, Tom
- Illustrator: Gerard, Elena
- Published: 1997
- Themes: Economic conditions
- Descriptors: Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Thailand